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The day to day happenings on Green Farm
May
08
Date |
Entry |
Comment
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| 1st |
St. Ronan day, a Celtic monk who is the patron saint of the Scottish
town of Innerleithen. Thought to have kept a pet wolf.
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| In 1911 Britain's first electric trolley
buses begin operating in the Yorkshire cities of Leeds and Bradford |
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| Thanks to everybody who braved the rain
to make our open day a success 300 people turned up and I hope enjoyed
it has much as we did. Thanks also to all the helpers who put a lot
of effort in to making it successfull. |
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| 2nd | I have a Highland council
meeting tomorrow so I take Rachel back up to Edinbourgh, and call
in to see Kelso Logan who has been ill. |
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| 3rd | Have a long day at the
council meeting. Tom is still tidying up. |
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| 4th | Put the plastic sheets
on the walls of the outside silo pit ready for the grass to go in.
Have a meeting with the top man in Semex he doesn't sack me so things
aren't to bad. |
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| 5th | Tom heads back up to Loch
Awe. Take 2 newly calved Holsteins to Gisburn auction mart, both sell
well. |
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| 6th | Give Andy a hand to widen
a gateway, It was only 8ft wide and the gate was broken and the wall
had fallen down so it was time to tidy it up. |
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| 7th | Have an administration
day. No wonder I never make any money I never send any bills out. |
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| Start to have a major
tidy up of my office at home. |
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| 8th | Carry on tiding my office
up. |
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| 9th | Take a 4 year old heifer
that we can't get in calf to CCM Skipton for slaughter for the shop.
Have to visit the asthma clinic for a check up. Take a round Langcliffe
Scars and Highside. Bring 5 cows home from Highside that are getting
closer to calving. |
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| 10th | Swap 2 yearling heifers
with S Hopley for his 2 three year olds that we sold him 2 years ago.
Stapleton's come and mow 100 acres with tractors and mowers, It takes
4 hours. Amazing. |
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| 11th | Take 2 steers to New
Deer Farm Shop at Weir near Burnley and 1 to the abattoir for them.
Neil the vet arrives to do some PD's. Bring the animals that are going
to the Highland Show inside. |
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| 12th | Stapleton's come to pick all the grass up which they manage quite easily in about 7 hours ( it used to take us about a week when we did it ourselves). Get the caravan out of storage and give it a good wash as we will need it next week when we go to the Highland Show. M Cowgill brings 5 holstein heifers to the bull. | |
| 13th | Tom returns from the
wilderness to give Jack and I a hand to put the sheet and tyres on
the silage clamp. Go and pick some beef up from Stanford's the butchers. Tom gets everything ready for Askam Bryan tomorrow. |
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| 14th | Tom and Sarah go Askam
Bryan college's open day with the meat stall and have a good day selling
beef. Laura and I go to Honley show where I am judging the Highland
classes. A nice show with a good champion from Robert Bradley. |
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| 15th | Went our niece Charlotte's
confirmation in Harrogate. |
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| 16th | Make sure we have everything packed and ready for setting off tomorrow. | |
| 17th | Tom sets off early with
the animals for the Highland show. We set off a bit later with the
caravan. |
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| NIGHEAN OF AUCHNACRAIG Calves |
Bull Calf
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| 18th | Tom has all the animals
looking good so we help Hazel get the Highland Cattle Society stand
ready. |
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| ALICE OF KIPPER LYNN Calves |
Bull Calf
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| 19th | Show day. Tom does a wonderful job in presenting the cattle. I just end up on TV with the Scottish minister of Agriculture and Ial. We have 2 blue and one green ticket and thanks to our young handler Dexter Logan we have the champion calf at foot with Maisie. | |
| 20th | Laura organises a Kist
or show box party in the cattle lines for the Highland people. We
have to take Maisie to meet the presenters of the scottish farming program "Landward" as they want her to appear live on their program. It is quite a novel experience all for 30 seconds. |
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| 21st | I must have eaten a bad
prawn as I feel a bit under the weather. After the grand parade Wendy
and I left Tom in charge for the last day and we headed up to Blair
Atholl for a weeks holiday. Wendy drove. |
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| HAZEL OF HELLIFIELD Calves |
Heifer Calf
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| 22nd | Did nothing. Tom calls to say his bag with the Land Rover keys and his wallet has been stolen. Jeremy has to drive all the way to Edinburgh with the spare set. | |
| 23rd | Had a stoll round Pitlochry
and did a bit of shopping. Went to a highland night on the recreation
ground. Pipe band, Scottish dancing and Midges. |
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| Tom returns home with cattle and the spare set of keys. No idea what he does for the rest of the week. | ||
| SELIAS 3rd OF DUNACH Calves |
Heifer Calf
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| 24th | Went to Inverness for the day on the train, How relaxing. | |
| 25th | I go to have a look at
some steers at the Benmore fold at Killin. I buy 10. Then I head to
Loch Awe to see the turnip thrower. Wendy stays at the caravan and
has a walk to Killiecrankie. |
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| 26th | Go to the house of Bruar for lunch, The wine is so good we have to return to the caravan for a sleep before returning to do some shopping | |
| 27th | Walk 4 miles, Yes 4 miles from Blair Atholl to the Falls of Bruar. Come back on the bus. Go and see HABEAS CORPUS at Pitlochry Theatre | |
| 28th | Arrive home after a nice leisurely drive. | |
| 29th | Have a ride round all the stock. Take notice of the weather forecast (idiot). | |
| 30th | Neil the vet comes to PD all the cows and heifers. We also dose (for worms and fluke) and apply a pour on solution to help stop flies and midges bothering the animals and maybe prevent Blue Tongue. | |
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